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Longtime Alabama, Vanderbilt assistant basketball coach John Bostick dies

The Tuscaloosa News

John Bostick, who served as an assistant basketball coach for C.M. Newton and Wimp Sanderson at the University of Alabama during his 32-year coaching career, died on Saturday.

”He was a great athlete, an outstanding coach and a great person,” Sanderson, who confirmed that Bostick had passed away. “I sat next to him on the bench for many years with C.M. and he was my assistant for a year before he followed C.M. to Vanderbilt.

”He did an excellent job. He took pride in everything he did.